First came King Kong. Now, bedbugs are trying to conquer the Empire State Building. An infestation of the creepy crawlers has hit the city's most iconic building. The little critters invaded an employee changing room in the basement, prompting building officials to call in exterminators. "There were guys there last night, spraying down the place,"

Dotting highways and small towns across America, many attractions hearken back to times past, decades when ogling the largest ball of paint or the local three-ring flea circus was considered legitimate "entertainment". Although our tastes may have changed a bit since then, there are still some unusual things out there that are definitely worth ....

In a world seemingly awash in iPhone and Android-powered smartphones, is there still room for the relatively staid BlackBerry, the one that popularized wireless messaging and created a generation of CrackBerry addicts on Bay Street and elsewhere?

The devastating effects of excess alcohol on young women have been spelled out by a major study. Now alarming rise in teenage promiscuity and abortions is linked to women's binge drinking..............

One hundred of the critically endangered Kihansi spray toads, bred in laboratories in the United States, were returned to Tanzania last week where they will live in the area for the first time in 10 years. No one is sure if they will be able to survive in the wild anymore.

We all knew the writing staff of Futurama was brainy but this is something else. To work out the ridiculous brain switching plot line from last night's hilarious episode, writer Ken Keeler (who also just happens to have a PhD in mathematics) ended up writing and proving an entirely new theorem. This is probably the most impressive bit of side work

Until now, scientists had not been sure of the plume's existence and could only hint at its possible size. The new research shows that the plume is 1.2 miles wide, 650 feet high and at least 25 miles long – at least that is as much as WHOI researchers could measure before Hurricane Alex made them turn back to shore.

A U.S. lawyer representing the whistleblowing website Wikileaks says U.S. government officials have been given codes and passwords granting them online access to official U.S. government documents that Wikileaks so far has not published.

Storms on the distant horizon and comet dust raining through the heavens above are combined in this alluring nightscape. The scene was recorded in the early hours of August 13 from the Keota Star Party site on the Pawnee National Grasslands of northeastern Colorado, USA.

A beachgoer in a remote area of northern New Zealand found a horrific sight Friday morning 58 pilot whales stranded on Karikari Beach.When conservation officials arrived, only 15 of the animals were still alive.The whales probably became stranded sometime during the night, said Carolyn Smith of New Zealand's Department of Conservation in Kaitaia.

About 100,000 people, or half the on-demand workforce at CrowdFlower, have taken pay in virtual rather than real dollars, says Chief Executive Officer Lukas Biewald, "We have to stop differentiating between the virtual world and the real world. The virtual world is very real."

Intel and Micron jointly announced a new TLC NAND memory device offering improved cost and higher storage capacity for USB, SD Flash card and consumer electronics. TLC stands for Triple-Level Cell and it offers a 20% reduction in size and will be able to produce 4TB of storage from a single wafer of the chips and 64GB single-chip Flash devices.

A hallucinogenic sludge-like potion called ayahuasca is increasingly becoming an elixir for foreigners grappling with everything from depression to childhood trauma. Ayahuasca may taste like ground-up dirt, but many leave Peru praising the brew in reverential terms for having purged them of their demons.

A nationwide search for missing centenarians in Japan has led to another grisly discovery -- the remains of a Tokyo woman who was believed to be 104 stuffed into her son's backpack for nearly a decade. "I laid out her body for a while, washed it in the bath, then broke up the bones and put them into a backpack."

The warrant for the arrest of WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange has been withdrawn, after chief prosecutor Eva Finné ruled that there were no grounds to suspect that he had committed rape, the Swedish prosecutor's office has confirmed. And yet it the accusatory article made Digg's top ten in, what, 3 hours. Let's see if this even makes front page.

When police walked into the home, they found a 5-year-old girl weighing nearly 160 pounds, her teeth rotting, her skin covered in spider bites. Her 4-year-old sister was lying on a filthy mattress, wearing only a urine-soaked diaper.

A group of law professors has filed a brief with the Supreme Court, arguing that it's patently ridiculous for copyright notices on compact discs--which P2P users never see--to count as "knowledge" of infringement.

Private Anthony Smith is the type of guy who stands up for what he believes in. That's why he decided to hold his commanding officers accountable for punishing him and fellow soldiers after they refused to attend an evangelical Christian rock concert at the Fort Eustis military post in Virginia.

With images from southern and central Russia in the news lately due to extensive wildfires, I thought it would be interesting to look back in time with this extraordinary collection of color photographs taken between 1909 and 1912.

Nobody was home at the time of the incident, which was not reported until after the senator and his wife returned home to Minneapolis after a two-day trip out of town on Tuesday and discovered the damage to their window facing the street.

It's back to school season and some dining establishments have got their creative juices flowing, offering free deals in exchange for a donation to support local schools or other charitable organizations.

Jon joked that the fine-dining loving actress "brought so many" of her friends to their "date," which Jen recalls was not exactly a full-fledged "date." Jen remembers that Jon's invite was more along the lines of "Hey, a group of us are going out, do you want to join?"